Amid spring’s profusion of birdsong, one of the most iconic voices is that of the mourning dove. It’s a familiar sound, in which an opening note swells into a higher second syllable, then falls back ...

Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...

How do you look for an animal you don’t even know exists anymore? The last sighting of the purple-winged ground dove (Paraclaravis geoffroyi) — a small, bamboo-loving dove native to the South American ...

Mourning doves sound just like they look — soft, shy, gentle. Hard to imagine the caw of a crow coming from a bird that looks like a dove. Doves do not have an extensive vocal repertoire; coo sums it ...

We become desensitized to the common sounds around us—car alarms, chattering squirrels, the mechanical functions of modern living kicking on and off throughout the day. If you had asked me a week ago ...

The myth of the quiet bird Before we dive in, we’d like to clarify that “quiet pet birds” refers to pet birds that are quiet compared to other pet birds. No bird can be considered silent; that’s just ...

When it comes to mourning doves, the world agrees with my usual instinct: the most essential thing to do is listen. And what almost everyone seems to hear in their namesake voice is melancholy and ...